In Office 365 there is a great mechanism that allows you to implement a corporate wide branding on the suite bar. The customer can apply their logo and their corporate colors there. On Monday I thought to myself what if I can make the suite bar less distracting...

While Waldek Mastykarz and I were working on a new project, we ask ourselves what it needs to create the web part corresponding to the current site theme colors. After a small research, we found the solution for that. Tokenize your CSS It seems like you...

The new SharePoint Framework has a smart way to avoid conflicting CSS definitions. Therefore all style sheet classes will be post-fixed with a unique random string and converted to a JSON object. In your web part code, you can use the same class name...

Yes, you read correctly. The modern team sites got image renditions or at least predefined image formats that will be used by the responsive experience of modern team sites. Back in the past image renditions was exclusively available in publishing sites...

While working on a responsive design project based on SharePoint 2016. I discovered a nice workaround how to remove the “Read more” tag. Since SharePoint 2013 the collapsed task form is an issue to many customers. It hides by default some...

Last year I released a style guide generator for your SharePoint and Office 365 development. This year I proudly present a yeoman generator that helps you to get started faster on your next project. There is no need to clone the old repository anymore...

We are currently at the dawn of a new age in web development. Future web developments will be based on components not on frameworks anymore. While the browser support for web components lacks in Microsoft Edge, Firefox or Safari. We can already start...

In the final part of this series I like to take a look on scenarios, how to use Office UI Fabric efficiently. As mentioned in part two using pure Office UI Fabric might can be a bit difficult sometimes. Especially when you don’t like to copy and...

In the first part of this series I showed why Office UI Fabric might not be suitable for every of your projects. Now I like to dig a little bit deeper into the architecture and ideas behind Office UI Fabric. In addition I will give you my personal guidance...

It’s easter and let’s hide a small easter egg in SharePoint that will enhance the user experience a little bit. Microinteractions are small interactions or animations to give a visual feedback to the user. The following graphic explains the...

Today I had the great pleasure to record a webinar for SharePoint Europe. Actually, it was not a new session, it more hat the purpose to show people how I develop now in SharePoint. Especially how my branding workflow nowadays looks like. I use now SASS...

I found this week another cool post in the dev office blog of Microsoft. Announcing Responsive UI Package for SharePoint on-premises (2013 and 2016) and what can it do? We are excited to announce availability of open source Responsive UI Package for SharePoint...

This week I had the honor to present three sessions at the German SharePoint Conference in Erding. It was the first time that I ever had three sessions at just on the conference, which was pretty challenging but I enjoyed it. Day 1 – The SharePoint...

In the last blog post on how to use the Office UI Fabric table and showed how making the table responsive too. This time I like to show what can be done to make the checkboxes fixed in its position. Change positioning reference of table row Before we...